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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

uniPaaS RIA Vs. Adobe Flex – Doing The Same with Less

I know no Portuguese, but I love the way this language sounds and how many words have this cool long ending of "ão", like coração (Heart).Browsing through competitors web sites and blogs in order to get better understanding of their offering I came upon a sample for flash based RIA and I was quite amazed with the amount of code and hassle one needs to go through to produce a very simple task in Flash compared to straight-forward manner of achieving the same functionality in uniPaaS RIA.

This introduction level example of Adobe perfectly illustrates the complexity imposed by the use of diverse technologies for implementing RIA, where the development is based on separated client and server side technologies. The Adobe flex example shows how even for the simplest task one needs to break the task requirement into 3 parts: